In this tutorial, we will guide you through a clean installation of Home Assistant on docker together with services as samba and MQTT.

We have chosen the step by step tutorial of setting up a smart home as the best learning option. In this guide you will find how our model house looks like, how rooms are labeled and what we will control in our model house. If you learn to set up a model house, it will be easy for you to adjust the number of lights and their labels so that the setting fits your real project. Let's go!

The Shelly brand is known for its products that primarily communicate over WiFi, including smart plugs, relay switches, blinds control relays, and many other devices. One of the advantages for deployment is the ability to both read and control these devices using the universal MQTT protocol. Across existing add-ons for both OpenHAB and Home Assistant, we will demonstrate how to use Shelly devices without installing any additional extensions.

In this article, we will show how to get information about the BMW i3 into a tablet using OpenHAB or Home Assistant. Of course, you can use the MyBMW app, but with the API, we have the opportunity to customize the interface, display simple dashboard with all information on a single page. It is also possible to send supported commands via the API, such as opening, closing, starting the air conditioning/heater, etc., and, most importantly, to integrate these actions with a smart home system.